American producer, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, actor, and director on stage (co-founder of the Mercury Theatre), radio (The War of the Worlds), and movies (Citizen Kane; The Magnificent Ambersons) (born May 6, 1915 – died Oct. 10, 1985; age 70). Orson Welles died of a heart attack. (Orson Welles 1941 Photo: CBS Radio | Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)

Sigmund Freud

Austrian professor, neurologist, and founder of psychoanalysis and associated therapeutic techniques (dream analysis, free association)(born May 6, 1856 – died Sept. 23, 1939; age 83). Sigmund Freud had cancer of the jaw and died from an overdose of morphine. (Sigmund Freud 1885 Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)

Raymond Bailey

American actor on TV (The Beverly Hillbillies; The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; My Sister Eileen) and movies (Herbie Rides Again; The Strongest Man in the World; Vertigo; King Creole) (bornMay 6,1904 – died April 15, 1980; age 75). Cause of death for Raymond Bailey was a heart attack. (Raymond Bailey 1965 Photo: TV Scout / Miami Herald eBay Wikimedia / PD)

Stewart Granger (nee James Stewart)

English-American actor in movies (The Wild Geese; Sodom and Gomorrah; North to Alaska; Moonfleet; Beau Brummell; Young Bess; Scaramouche; King Solomon’s Mines; Caesar and Cleopatra) and TV (The Virginian) (born May 6, 1913 – died Aug. 16, 1993; age 80). Stewart Granger died of bone and prostate cancer. (Stewart Granger Photo: kate gabrielle | Flickr SRR)

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

American-Canadian middleweight pro boxer convicted of murder and released after almost 20 years when the conviction was overturned twice; inspiration for The Hurricane (1999) (bornMay 6,1937 – died Apr. 20, 2014; age 76). Cause of death for Rubin Carter was prostate cancer. (Rubin Carter 1958 Photo: Rubin Carter | Wikimedia / PD)